That's interesting. So, are we to assume byte-level granularity on writes and not blocks? Blocks that could be read? Blocks that might contain information like passwords or names of undercover agents?
I was already annoyed with Google's obvious profiling tricks; apparently harvesting my gmail to display advertising. When I got duped into associating my YouTube account with my Google account (*now* I understand), I was seeing people in my gmail senders lists showing up as recommended movies. I'm trying to walk back my Google dependence, not add a new data mining node on my TIA profile.
I would expand this to basically all kinds of regulations. You go to a country that doesn't have them, and you understand why they're so valuable. Or, you could just go on a road trip in Mexico and see how well their gated-communities+immigrate-to-the-US philosophy worked out.
...I just don't trust the content anymore. If I'm trying to figure out if the actress I just saw on TV is the daughter of Raquel Welsh, yeah, but anything where there's some vested interest in hiding or distorting the truth (politics), I've learned to stay far away from it. I like learning new things and simply don't have the time to be auditing as much as I'm learning.
I was under the assumption that Facebook's cash flow wasn't driven by banner ads, but more by their massive customer profile database and the insidious reach of Facebook beyond their own website.
That being said, I think FB's IPO is insanely overvalued, but I don't buy tiger-deterrence rocks either.
You reduce network capacity, but now your routers need to be smarter, so they're taking longer to encode-decode or you're spending more on hardware to keep throughput the same.
Just saw this, yeah that's true but it's also a circumstance of any war. You can't just start lobbing 20 mile shots at any unknown blip on your radar. Pilots are always going to be constrained by some kind of validation of targets. It's one of the silly notions in the Phoenix missile. It's designed to be shot at aircraft 100+ miles away which will only ever happen in a Jack Bauer Hollywood fantasy scenario. And, when it gets there, since Phoenixes are fat ducks to carry all that fuel to get that far, they aren't that manueverable and are easier to defeat when they get there. If I recall correctly, the Phoenix was never responsible for any air-to-air kills during its service.
Plus, Sparrows weren't that good back then, just going by anecdotes I don't have any numbers on that.
And yet, share price (and indirectly quarterly reports) are the metric the financial industry has chosen. Stupid? Maybe, but you can't blame the author for that.
I think that usage is perfectly acceptable considering he's not writing a legal document. If I opened up with "Full disclosure: I used to date this chick's roommate," before going into a rant about why I though some girl was a horrible potential hire, you'd know exactly what I meant.
Having security measures and surveillance at a location like this isn't my problem. It's the surveillance of daily activities, monitoring of my transactions, and snooping on my communications that bothers me.
This is something that really bugs me. When I was a kid, I can remember the exact pattern of commercials. There were exactly 4 commercial breaks with 4 commercials each 30 seconds long. So, you had 22 minutes of content for 8 minutes of advertising. Even the placement was exactly the same in my favorite shows. Two breaks were interspersed during the show with 2 breaks mixed in between show intro-outros. I don't know if the ratio is the same, but the breaks on network TV are definitely way too long and far too much for my patience.
Are you fucking insane??? The pirates don't have a "product." Are pirates producing TV shows now? No, they're splicing out a few minutes of a TV show that you're only getting to see anyway because the rest of us are sitting through those commercials.
I'll vouch for that. I just wrote a post about how different I feel after a semester of 4-5 hours of sleep (and crashing on weekends). Any idiot with a nice normal schedule can bag on the general population for having to catch up on sleep on the weekends.
Disrupt your normal sleeping patterns and you feel lethargic. Feel lethargic and you don't engage in normal activities and you start taking shortcuts (ordering in rather than cooking). I just finished a semester of 4-5 hours sleep time and zero exercise and I feel like a new man now that I'm getting a decent amount of sleep.
Might sound like conspiracy theorism, but we've seen black and white evidence. Maybe not in this case, but enough to make me not trust them. Any time a group of partisans can collect the machine tallies in a room by themselves and come out with different results, or more votes than voters show up in a district, that's all I need to know.
I've worked with computers for about 15 years now and I've never seen hardware glitches that magically only affect the most convenient values like that.
Back in the glory days of super models a la Cindy Crawford and Tyra Banks, from what CC said the typical size for a model was 6. Now, they're 0s and 2s. Some of them are downright repulsive. There's a pretty nasty pic of Gisele Bunchken post-pregnancy and it looks like she was trying to starve off the weight. Might as well drape the clothes over a wire hanger if that's what they're aiming for.
Is that marketing hype, an actual "must look like an Apple clone" requirement, or just to make it more appealing to developers in appearance. Personally, I'd love to have an Alienware m18 largely for it's looks (and performance). Stylish doesn't mean we're going to get commercials with graphics designers and bike messengers talking about how much they dig Sputnik and what it does for their hip lifestyles.
They need to use our infrastructure, courts, police protection, etc. These efforts should be treated like foreign entities. You want to play that game, then go ahead.
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That's interesting. So, are we to assume byte-level granularity on writes and not blocks? Blocks that could be read? Blocks that might contain information like passwords or names of undercover agents?
I was already annoyed with Google's obvious profiling tricks; apparently harvesting my gmail to display advertising. When I got duped into associating my YouTube account with my Google account (*now* I understand), I was seeing people in my gmail senders lists showing up as recommended movies. I'm trying to walk back my Google dependence, not add a new data mining node on my TIA profile.
I would expand this to basically all kinds of regulations. You go to a country that doesn't have them, and you understand why they're so valuable. Or, you could just go on a road trip in Mexico and see how well their gated-communities+immigrate-to-the-US philosophy worked out.
You linked to an opinion article?
...I just don't trust the content anymore. If I'm trying to figure out if the actress I just saw on TV is the daughter of Raquel Welsh, yeah, but anything where there's some vested interest in hiding or distorting the truth (politics), I've learned to stay far away from it. I like learning new things and simply don't have the time to be auditing as much as I'm learning.
I was under the assumption that Facebook's cash flow wasn't driven by banner ads, but more by their massive customer profile database and the insidious reach of Facebook beyond their own website.
That being said, I think FB's IPO is insanely overvalued, but I don't buy tiger-deterrence rocks either.
You reduce network capacity, but now your routers need to be smarter, so they're taking longer to encode-decode or you're spending more on hardware to keep throughput the same.
Just saw this, yeah that's true but it's also a circumstance of any war. You can't just start lobbing 20 mile shots at any unknown blip on your radar. Pilots are always going to be constrained by some kind of validation of targets. It's one of the silly notions in the Phoenix missile. It's designed to be shot at aircraft 100+ miles away which will only ever happen in a Jack Bauer Hollywood fantasy scenario. And, when it gets there, since Phoenixes are fat ducks to carry all that fuel to get that far, they aren't that manueverable and are easier to defeat when they get there. If I recall correctly, the Phoenix was never responsible for any air-to-air kills during its service.
Plus, Sparrows weren't that good back then, just going by anecdotes I don't have any numbers on that.
hehe I thought it was funny.
And yet, share price (and indirectly quarterly reports) are the metric the financial industry has chosen. Stupid? Maybe, but you can't blame the author for that.
I think that usage is perfectly acceptable considering he's not writing a legal document. If I opened up with "Full disclosure: I used to date this chick's roommate," before going into a rant about why I though some girl was a horrible potential hire, you'd know exactly what I meant.
Having security measures and surveillance at a location like this isn't my problem. It's the surveillance of daily activities, monitoring of my transactions, and snooping on my communications that bothers me.
Because unlike in Hollywood movies, bomb sniffing dogs aren't machines with 100% uptime, 100% detection, 100% target coverage, and 100% trigger rates.
The FBI can get a warrant if they've got evidence, but they want to snoop without them.
This is something that really bugs me. When I was a kid, I can remember the exact pattern of commercials. There were exactly 4 commercial breaks with 4 commercials each 30 seconds long. So, you had 22 minutes of content for 8 minutes of advertising. Even the placement was exactly the same in my favorite shows. Two breaks were interspersed during the show with 2 breaks mixed in between show intro-outros. I don't know if the ratio is the same, but the breaks on network TV are definitely way too long and far too much for my patience.
Are you fucking insane??? The pirates don't have a "product." Are pirates producing TV shows now? No, they're splicing out a few minutes of a TV show that you're only getting to see anyway because the rest of us are sitting through those commercials.
What's with all the "just eat less" posts on this story? Are you reading what it's trying to tell you?
I'll vouch for that. I just wrote a post about how different I feel after a semester of 4-5 hours of sleep (and crashing on weekends). Any idiot with a nice normal schedule can bag on the general population for having to catch up on sleep on the weekends.
Disrupt your normal sleeping patterns and you feel lethargic. Feel lethargic and you don't engage in normal activities and you start taking shortcuts (ordering in rather than cooking). I just finished a semester of 4-5 hours sleep time and zero exercise and I feel like a new man now that I'm getting a decent amount of sleep.
From inside or outside the cage, tough guy?
That was before we had precogs. Welcome to the future, caveman.
Might sound like conspiracy theorism, but we've seen black and white evidence. Maybe not in this case, but enough to make me not trust them. Any time a group of partisans can collect the machine tallies in a room by themselves and come out with different results, or more votes than voters show up in a district, that's all I need to know.
I've worked with computers for about 15 years now and I've never seen hardware glitches that magically only affect the most convenient values like that.
Back in the glory days of super models a la Cindy Crawford and Tyra Banks, from what CC said the typical size for a model was 6. Now, they're 0s and 2s. Some of them are downright repulsive. There's a pretty nasty pic of Gisele Bunchken post-pregnancy and it looks like she was trying to starve off the weight. Might as well drape the clothes over a wire hanger if that's what they're aiming for.
Is that marketing hype, an actual "must look like an Apple clone" requirement, or just to make it more appealing to developers in appearance. Personally, I'd love to have an Alienware m18 largely for it's looks (and performance). Stylish doesn't mean we're going to get commercials with graphics designers and bike messengers talking about how much they dig Sputnik and what it does for their hip lifestyles.
They need to use our infrastructure, courts, police protection, etc. These efforts should be treated like foreign entities. You want to play that game, then go ahead.